VR NEWS

By Jack Marshall
(above: Visitors test a VR headset at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in Cannes, France. Photo: Reuters )
Two of the shiniest objects in marketing in 2016 are branded content and virtual reality, so it’s no surprise that the two collided during the Cannes Lions advertising festival in France this week.
VR was a popular talking point among ad agency executives, tech companies such as Samsung were...

By Sebastian Blanco
It's not enough that there are two competing companies working to turn the low-pressure, high-speed Hyperloop idea to reality. When news from each of them comes our at roughly the same time, it's easy enough to lump them together. So, well, guilty as charged.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies ( not Hyperloop One ) has published a new video showing how it might give hyperloop riders a glimpse "outside" the pod...

By Nick Statt
Today, Facebook-owned Oculus announced the launch of 360-degree video reactions for the Gear VR headset. So now, when watching Facebook videos using Samsung's virtual reality goggles, you'll be able to choose between the social network's standard series of reactions, including the like or one of the five new emoji reactions . When viewing 360-degree videos, you'll also be able to see others' reactions float by on the...

By Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick
With the recent release of the Oculus ‘Rift’ and HTC ‘Vive’ headsets, and the Playstation ‘VR’ to launch by the end of this year, virtual reality is set to dominate headlines in the technology sector in 2016.
Virtual reality (VR) is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real...

By Farhad Manjoo
(above: A visitor tried HTC Vive virtual reality headset at the Computex exhibition in Taipei this month. The experience can be overwhelming. Credit Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
This is going to sound like the tech-nerd version of one of those first-person People magazine essays about surviving adversity: You don’t appreciate how much you need to see your hands until you can’t.
Your hands – they’re always...